20.500.12556/RUL-169295 “For generations, farmers have preserved the environment, now you are endangering it” affective-discursive practices in European farmers’ reaction to climate policy The farming sector is one of the sectors most affected by climate change while simultaneously contributing to around 20% of global greenhouse emissions. To alleviate the pressures of agricultural production on nature and climate, the European Union (EU) established a new set of agri-environmental regulations positioning farmers as crucial actors in providing sustainable food and safeguarding the environment. However, farmers are increasingly contesting these regulations and mobilizing through EU-wide protests. Despite the obvious potency of the farmers’ actions, scholarly studies problematizing their manifestation in the context of climate governance are scarce. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing the 2023–2024 farmers’ protests in Slovenia to examine the interplay of affects and discourse in meaning-making among the farmers, which shows a mobilization driven by anger and fear as well as self-importance. The paper thus contributes to the knowledge on agrarian populism and farmers’ mobilizations in the European context, uncovering complexities and nuances of the articulated affective-discursive canon. armers' protest affest affective-discursive practices agri-environmental regulation true false true Angleški jezik Angleški jezik Članek v reviji 2025-05-22 13:14:29 2025-05-22 13:14:34 2025-05-23 04:12:27 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 1-34 Vol. 60 no. 1 2025 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 316 2788-2993 10.32422/cjir.889 225691651 https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/889 1 b032684b-36fc-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=210574 CJIR1_2025_4_Matejak-Mahmutovic.pdf CJIR1_2025_4_Matejak-Mahmutovic.pdf 1 2DFDF6DDB6D226EA94959520F732D1B1 55c8c4bb3213ac8aebeca40ed869c2882962c26187ec6b2d408ecc9f5e54e460 eea00365-36fc-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=210576 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0